“I would like to play the doubles with Carlos Alcaraz at the Paris Olympic Games.” Rafael Nadal It would be amazing, no? (via @marca)
Rafael Nadal has acknowledged Novak Djokovic "is the best in history"
ATPWednesday, 20 September 2023 at 19:00
Rafael Nadal congratulated Novak Djokovic on his victory at the US Open and stated that he is the greatest in history.
The Serbian recently secured his 24th Grand Slam title, surpassing Nadal's 22 and Roger Federer's 20. As the new world No. 1, Djokovic continues to demonstrate his ongoing dominance, while with the Spanish player nearing retirement, it seems unlikely for Nadal to catch up:
“I believe that numbers are numbers and statistics are statistics, and in that sense, I think he has better numbers than mine and that is indisputable,” Nadal said to AS in a interview.
“I do not have an ego big enough to try to disguise a reality that is not. This is the truth. The rest are tastes, inspiration, sensations that one or the other may transmit to you, that you may like one or the other more.
“I think that with respect to titles, Djokovic is the best in history and there is nothing to discuss in that. Then, as always, everyone can combine the story as they wish, saying that I have suffered many injuries – bad luck for me or bad luck that I had my body this way.
“He has had another one and in some ways that is also part of the sport. I congratulate him for everything he is achieving and that does not cause me any kind of frustration,” he said.
“I have said it when I was the one who won the most Slams, I said it when we were tied and I say it now that I am behind. I am not going to be the one who tries, through a personal struggle, to want to be what I am not. What is, is, and what is not, is not.
“I say this, I am very satisfied with everything I have done,” Nadal added.
15-times French Open champion acknowledged that he hopes to play in the Paris Olympics in 2024:
“For the Games, on a personal level, I would like to play them one more time,” he said.
“Everyone knows that I have always been a lover of the Games. I have lived incredible moments of co-existence, of seeing what sport is in its pure essence.
“Regarding the fact of playing doubles with Carlos, I have not had the slightest conversation with him in that regard. But I would also like [it] and it would be a good motivation, another incentive for me to be able to close my Olympic cycle playing with Carlos, with everything he is achieving, with the young people and with the great future he has ahead of him.”
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